Lost 5.13 Some like it Hoth
Apr. 16th, 2009 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakAny episode which manages a pun on both Billy Wilder and Star Wars in its title is bound to be watchable; this one brought on a lot of other neat things besides.
Okay, so Miles having daddy issues wasn't exactly an original choice. Join the club containing most of the ensemble, Miles, and also, most of the other characters have had it far worse in the daddy department. BUT the whole unoriginal choice was entirely justified by the absolutely priceless conversation with Hurley on the subject, complete with the revelation of Hurley's attempt at an Empire Strikes Back rewrite and counselling by Luke and Vader comparisons. (Mind you, if Miles were a geek the way Hurley is he could have pointed out that Luke got his hand cut off before the "I am your father" revelation, not after, and thus defused Hurley's argument. See, this is why knowing Star Wars is useful for life! *nodes sagely*) The whole Miles' n Hurley team-up was another example of something Lost does pretty well, combine characters who hadn't had interactions before and explore the dynamic which unfolds. Very, very enjoyable.
Miles being revealed as the baby of the season opener, Dr. Chang's son, confirmed pretty much everyone's speculation, and I guess we'll find out why Dr. Chang sent his wife and son away before Our Heroes leave the 70s. At a guess, it's connected to Miles' gift of "reading" dead people (and btw, that compare and contrast conversation with Hurley was priceless, too); perhaps the island transforms children born on it (does that mean Aaron back in the states will turn out to be a psychic, too?), and Chang clued into this a little too late. The recruitment via Naomi didn't bring anything new, either, but then came the zinger, in the form of the enterprising gang giving Miles the "what lies in the shadow of the statue" line Illana was spouting last week. Now, Illana didn't work for Ben (she could have lied to Sayid about that, true, but we saw her later interacting with Ben briefly and she gave no sign of recognising him), but I had assumed she was working for Widmore, and the merry gang which briefly kidnapped Miles didn't, either. Which means we have yet another group vying for island possession. Hm. I see two possibilities:
a) They work for Eloise, who is also Ellie. We were reminded of Ellie's presence on the island in the 70s in the last but one episode, and Eloise Hawking was of course the one who enabled the O6 to get back. She could have been a third party in the background, deciding to let Ben and Widmore destroy each other and then take over, for example.
b) They work for the same crowd thatBrother Justin Clancy Brown's character, Desmond's superior in the hatch, the ex CIA who taught Sayid the art of torture, worked for; after all, he, too, traded in cryptic lines as code words. And let's not forget the 50s interlude early this season confirmed the military was at one point on the island and tested weapons on it.
I think I mentioned in the Kate-centric episode that the irony of her connecting with Roger was that Roger is very much like her own abusive biological father, Wayne, but because she first sees Roger from his sober, not abusive and concerned for his son side, she has no way of knowing this. In this episode, Roger, getting more and more drunk, also starts to backslide into viciousness, though still nowhere as full fledged as we've seen in the past. (I'm pretty sure by the time young Ben gets back to the Dharma Initiative, he'll be there, though.) And Kate, who sometimes is the worst secret keeper ever, sees that a little too late. Simultanously, because Miles is called away before deleting Sawyer's tapes, Sawyer's well meaning henchman catches on; I'd say everyone's cover is just two seconds from being blown, and wouldn't you know it, this is when Mr. Farraday decides to grace the island again with his presence. Which also answers the question of why he wasn't in previous 70s episodes; it seems he was the only one of the time-stranded characters who actually left, and now has gained a reputation as a scientist so he can be hired as such by the DI. Presumably Daniel will have figured out a way to get everyone back to the present, but I suspect that's not all; he'll probably try to prevent Charlotte's death as well.
While as mentioned before I loved the "You're just jealous because my power is much more awesome than yours" conversation, I think the fact Miles' describes his power working in very different ways from how Hurley converses with dead people, plus the fact that Dave aside, Hurley hasn't seen anyone who didn't die on the island yet, is another indication that the island ghosts Hurley talks to are in fact avatars for the island itself.
Okay, so Miles having daddy issues wasn't exactly an original choice. Join the club containing most of the ensemble, Miles, and also, most of the other characters have had it far worse in the daddy department. BUT the whole unoriginal choice was entirely justified by the absolutely priceless conversation with Hurley on the subject, complete with the revelation of Hurley's attempt at an Empire Strikes Back rewrite and counselling by Luke and Vader comparisons. (Mind you, if Miles were a geek the way Hurley is he could have pointed out that Luke got his hand cut off before the "I am your father" revelation, not after, and thus defused Hurley's argument. See, this is why knowing Star Wars is useful for life! *nodes sagely*) The whole Miles' n Hurley team-up was another example of something Lost does pretty well, combine characters who hadn't had interactions before and explore the dynamic which unfolds. Very, very enjoyable.
Miles being revealed as the baby of the season opener, Dr. Chang's son, confirmed pretty much everyone's speculation, and I guess we'll find out why Dr. Chang sent his wife and son away before Our Heroes leave the 70s. At a guess, it's connected to Miles' gift of "reading" dead people (and btw, that compare and contrast conversation with Hurley was priceless, too); perhaps the island transforms children born on it (does that mean Aaron back in the states will turn out to be a psychic, too?), and Chang clued into this a little too late. The recruitment via Naomi didn't bring anything new, either, but then came the zinger, in the form of the enterprising gang giving Miles the "what lies in the shadow of the statue" line Illana was spouting last week. Now, Illana didn't work for Ben (she could have lied to Sayid about that, true, but we saw her later interacting with Ben briefly and she gave no sign of recognising him), but I had assumed she was working for Widmore, and the merry gang which briefly kidnapped Miles didn't, either. Which means we have yet another group vying for island possession. Hm. I see two possibilities:
a) They work for Eloise, who is also Ellie. We were reminded of Ellie's presence on the island in the 70s in the last but one episode, and Eloise Hawking was of course the one who enabled the O6 to get back. She could have been a third party in the background, deciding to let Ben and Widmore destroy each other and then take over, for example.
b) They work for the same crowd that
I think I mentioned in the Kate-centric episode that the irony of her connecting with Roger was that Roger is very much like her own abusive biological father, Wayne, but because she first sees Roger from his sober, not abusive and concerned for his son side, she has no way of knowing this. In this episode, Roger, getting more and more drunk, also starts to backslide into viciousness, though still nowhere as full fledged as we've seen in the past. (I'm pretty sure by the time young Ben gets back to the Dharma Initiative, he'll be there, though.) And Kate, who sometimes is the worst secret keeper ever, sees that a little too late. Simultanously, because Miles is called away before deleting Sawyer's tapes, Sawyer's well meaning henchman catches on; I'd say everyone's cover is just two seconds from being blown, and wouldn't you know it, this is when Mr. Farraday decides to grace the island again with his presence. Which also answers the question of why he wasn't in previous 70s episodes; it seems he was the only one of the time-stranded characters who actually left, and now has gained a reputation as a scientist so he can be hired as such by the DI. Presumably Daniel will have figured out a way to get everyone back to the present, but I suspect that's not all; he'll probably try to prevent Charlotte's death as well.
While as mentioned before I loved the "You're just jealous because my power is much more awesome than yours" conversation, I think the fact Miles' describes his power working in very different ways from how Hurley converses with dead people, plus the fact that Dave aside, Hurley hasn't seen anyone who didn't die on the island yet, is another indication that the island ghosts Hurley talks to are in fact avatars for the island itself.
